Renaud Capuçon began his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fourteen, winning numerous awards during his five years there. Following this, Capuçon moved to Berlin to study with Thomas Brandis and Isaac Stern, and was awarded the Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1997, Capuçon was invited by Claudio Abbado to become concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, which he led for three summers, working with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, and Abbado himself.

Since this time, Capuçon has established himself as a soloist at the very highest level. He has played concerti with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and the Orchestre de Paris. Capuçon also tours extensively as a solo recitalist. He has a great commitment to performing chamber music and has worked with Marta Argerich, Hélène Grimaud, and Maria João Pires, as well as with his brother and regular collaborator cellist Gautier Capuçon. These collaborations have taken him to the festivals of Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Lucerne, Tanglewood and many others.

His most recent recording was of Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano with Frank Braley. He also recorded the Beethoven and Korngold concertos with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Renaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri del Gesù ›Panette‹ (1737) that belonged to Isaac Stern, bought for him by the Banca Svizzera Italiana (BSI).

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.

Gautier Capuçon is widely recognised as one of the foremost cellists of his generation. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, and later with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. The winner of various first prizes in many leading international competitions, including the International André Navarra Prize, Capuçon was named ‘New Talent of the Year’ by Victoires de la Musique in 2001; in 2004 he received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award since which time he has received several Echo Klassik awards.

Capuçon performs regularly as a soloist with the major orchestras worldwide, and is a favourite of conductors at the highest level, including Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel and Bernhard Haitink. In recent seasons he has performed with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the orchestras in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston.

A regular recital and chamber musician, Capuçon is performing with any of the world’s leading artists such as Martha Agerich, Daniel Barenboim, Hélène Grimaud, Viktoria Mullova and his brother Renaud.

His numerous recordings include the Dvořák Concerto with Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Paavo Järvi, trios with Martha Argerich and Renaud Capuçon as well as duo recordings with his brother. Gautier Capuçon plays a 1701 Matteo Goffriller.